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Graphic Novels

HARLEY QUINN'S GREATEST HITS -- Recommended. By Scott Beatty, Adam Glass, Scott Snyder, Jeph Loeb et al. Art by Bruce Timm, John Timms, Jim Lee et al. Get ready for this summer’s most anticipated movie Suicide Squad with the comics that inspired the film, including fan-favorite character Harley Quinn! And here is the best of her short stories, with some stunning art by the likes of Jim Lee, whose work here knocks us out, plus PaulDini, Bruce Timm and Amanda Conner. Wild, fun stories in a variety of styles, from animation to kid style to deadly serious...well, if Harley is ever really serious. With guest appearances from Batman, Poison Ivy, and Catwoman.....More.

Item Code: HQGHI$9.99

Publisher

DC

Publish Date

2016

Binding

Soft Cover

Dimensions

7x10

# Pages

160pg

Color

Full Color

Harley’s coming up in movie-land, and we’re bringing in all of her latest graphic novels and archives, like this one. See our website for more Harley.

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WANDERING ISLAND -- Recommended. By Kenji Tsuruta. First volume in a fascinating storyline. Mikura Amelia is a free-spirited young woman--more girl than woman, really--living alone with her cat. She operates an air delivery service, flying her vintage 1936-era seaplane to Japan’s small island communities located hundreds of miles out into the Pacific. When her beloved grandfather, who taught her to fly and started the business, passes away, she discovers he left her an undelivered parcel, addressed to an island that doesn’t exist...or does it? Magnificent artwork--photo-realistic detail, juxtaposed with softly sensual images of Mirkuro, who is more comfortable in a bikini than in flight jackets...it's hot there!....More.

STEAM MAN -- Collects #1-5. By Joe R. Lansdale. Art by Piotr Kowalski. On the great plains of the old American west, an enormous steam-powered robot marches across the countryside, to defend the populace against invading Martians (a War of the Worlds tie-in) and armies of killer beastly Morlocks (and even more elemental, a tie in to The Time Machine)! The Steam Man, a giant metal man operated by a team of monster hunters, seems to have the defense of the West well in hand, until a crazed and powerful vampire--our warped Time Traveler--tries to bring about the apocalypse!....More.

Item Code: STMA$17.99 $15.99

Publisher

Dark Horse

Publish Date

2016

Binding

Soft Cover

Dimensions

7x10

# Pages

136pg

Color

Full Color

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NEIL GAIMAN Coraline -- Back in Stock. Recommended. Adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell. Acclaimed artist P. Craig Russell brings Neil Gaiman's enchanting, nationally bestselling children's book Coraline to new life in this gorgeously illustrated graphic novel adaptation. Coraline discovered the door a little after they moved into the house. When Coraline steps through, she finds another house strangely similar to her own (only better). But there's another mother there and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.....More.

Item Code: CORH$9.99

Publisher

Harper Collins

Publish Date

2009

Binding

Soft Cover

Dimensions

6x9

# Pages

186pg

Color

Full Color

Lots more Neil Gaiman on the website. This is also available in the original novel, as part of a boxed set of three books, in NEIL GAIMAN & CHRIS RIDDELL Box Set [NGCR. $21, your price $18.95]. Comes with The Graveyard Book and Fortunately The Milk, all illustrated by Riddell (from the British editions).

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BARB WIRE Book 2 Hotwired -- Collects Barb Wire Volume 2 #5-8, 2015-16. By Chris Warner, Patrick Olliffe, and Tom Nguyen. Covers by Adam Hughes. Braced by shady federal agents, bounty hunter Barb Wire is forced to locate an old associate whom the agents claim is the most dangerous man alive. With no choice but compliance, Barb learns that her former ally is not the man she remembers...if indeed he is a man at all! The comic book that inspired the motion picture, Barb Wire returns with smoke, lightning, and a skilled tough lady with fast-talking guns. Writtten by series creator Chris Warner and drawn by Catwoman and Spider-Girl artist Patrick Olliffe, with all five covers by comics superstar Adam Hughes.....More.

ZENTROPA Signed -- Signed! By John Mahoney. New scifi from a veteran Disney Visual Development Artist! In the tradition of the old Heavy Metal Magazine, Guido Crepax's work, Lone Sloane and the classic early European sci-fi epics. Inspired by a near death experience, this 108-page wordless graphic novel is a psychedelic, mind expanding epic. Two space explorers try to figure out what is happening to their planet as odd organic growths begin appearing everywhere. Is this a biological attack from another race or something coming from within their own planet?....More.

Item Code: ZENHS$40.00

Publisher

Independent Publisher

Publish Date

2015

Binding

Hard Cover -
No Dustjacket

Dimensions

10x13

# Pages

108pg

Color

Partial Color

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New On Sale

THE ART OF DOUG SNEYD Signed -- Signed bookplate! Now in Softcover. Our Highest Recommendation. By Doug Sneyd. Foreword by Hugh Hefner. One of Playboy Magazine's most popular contributors, Sneyd has been sketching beautiful ladies in compromising situations since the 1960s. Loaded with gorgeous cheesecake-style pin-ups and laced with a bawdy wit, these gorgeous full-color illustrations celebrate the art and humor of the pick-up, hook-up and break-up. Loaded with rare production sketches and previously unpublished works. A must for fans of Playboy, lovers of tongue-in-cheek sexy humor, and just plain beautiful ladies.....More.

Item Code: AODSN$19.99

Publisher

Dark Horse

Publish Date

2016

Binding

Soft Cover

Dimensions

9x12

# Pages

248pg

Color

Full Color

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ART OF RICHARD THOMPSON -- Closeout Price! Recommended. By David Apatoff, Nick Galifianakis, Bill Watterson et al. Known for his comic strip Cul de Sac, Richard Thompson's art prowess extends to many other levels. He is renowned among cartoonists, including high praise from Calvin & Hobbes' Bill Watterson, as an "artist's" cartoonist. Little known to all but those close to him is the extent of his talent. This is the book that will enlighten and delight, with plenty from his wonderfully funny strip, as well as other offbeat and unsual cartoons, portraits, and much more! Note: These copies have remainder marks.....More.

Item Code: ARRTH$35.00$16.95

Publisher

Andrews McMeel

Publish Date

2014

Condition

Note: These copies have remainder marks.

Binding

Hard Cover

Dimensions

9x11

# Pages

224pg

Color

Partial Color

Check out his wonderful Cul de Sac compilations on our website. Little four-year-old Alice is the closest thing to Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes) we’ve come across, and we love this strip dearly. We have both the complete collection and an inexpensive softcover stand-alone title.

Volumes 1, 4 and 5 area also available at the same discount. Volume 5 is the final volume, so now we just have Vol 3 to go to have them all back in print. See all these volumes on our website.

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HOWARD THE DUCK The Complete Collection Volume 3 -- Collects Howard the Duck Magazine #2-7, 1979-81. By Bill Mantlo et al. Art by Gene Colan, John Buscema and Michael Golden. Discover rare, never-before-collected tales of the duck with delusions of adequacy as Marvel's trawl through the annals of Howard history plunders the magazine era! As rendered by legends like Colan, Buscema and Golden, Howie has never looked better, while his adventures get wilder than ever. Since he moved from comics to a magazine, no more comics code--so there's abundant nudity here. Howard reunites with muck monster Man-Thing and meets Santa Claus, and Drakula, the undead duck! Mature Readers...More.

LE PATER ALPHONSE MUCHA'S SYMBOLIST MASTERPIECE -- With 10 additional mini prints! Our Highest Recommendation. By Thomas Negovan. Special Kickstarter edition with two separate sets of prints, else the same as the softcover. Coming in hardcover later this summer. By 1899, Alphonse Mucha had experienced four years as the most recognizable proponent of Art Nouveau graphics and the most celebrated illustrator in Paris. So Mucha insisted upon the release of a deeply personal work, and printed 510 copies of what he for the remainder of his life considered his masterpiece. This Symbolist story features a female deity protecting humankind, sophisticated occult themes and mystical illustrations.....More.

Item Code: ALPMP$65.00

Publisher

Century Guild

Publish Date

2016

Binding

Soft Cover

Dimensions

8x11

# Pages

59pg

Color

Partial Color

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LE PATER ALPHONSE MUCHA'S SYMBOLIST MASTERPIECE -- Our Highest Recommendation. By Thomas Negovan. The images from Le Pater are mentioned in numerous Mucha books as his masterpieces and are universally acknowledged alongside his massive Slav Epic paintings as his finest work. However, as a result of Mucha's forced limitation of the publication of this masterwork, the rarity of the lithographs means that most books are limited to mentioning the images in the text and leaving the reader to wonder what these "lost masterpieces" might look like. Unlike the advertising art that had dominated Mucha's output since his "discovery" by Sarah Bernhardt in late 1894, Mucha described this series of images to a New York reporter as "the thing I have put my soul into." (The Sun newspaper, 5 January, 1900)....More.

Item Code: ALPM$35.00

Publisher

Century Guild

Publish Date

2016

Binding

Soft Cover

Dimensions

8x11

# Pages

59pg

Color

Partial Color

The publishers have added a special hardcover edition, for $100, which will include the bonus ten plates that come with the $65 softcover package, above. However, this will not be ready until January. It is not yet on the website as I write this, but may be up shortly. You can call to reserve it: (530) 273-2166.

HERE THERE BE DRAGONS -- Highly Recommended. By Roger Zelazny. Art by Vaughn Bodé. Roger Zelazny’s only two children’s books in affordable new hardcover editions. Mister Gibberling picked up his quill, and with a great flourish of the feather wrote (in fancy letters): Here There Be Dragons. Then he would smile because he had explained a new territory. Thus, in a tiny, isolated kingdom long ago and far away, everyone believed that the world beyond was infested with fearsome, fire-breathing dragons and no one dared venture forth. No one, that is, except William. First published in a limited edition in 1992.....More.

Item Code: HETH$19.99

Publisher

Grant

Publish Date

2016

Binding

Hard Cover

Dimensions

9x11

# Pages

24pg

Color

Text/Full Color

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WAY UP HI -- Highly Recommended. By Roger Zelazny. Art by Vaughn Bodé. Roger Zelazny’s only two children’s books in affordable new hardcover editions. When Susi cut through the old orchard, shady and secret and out-of-the-way, she was alone. Then, on a fine, warm, sunny day during the last week of school she met Herman, a lonesome pterodactyl sunning himself on a rock. So began an extraordinary summer of friendship, adventure, discovery and . . . magic. First published in a limited edition in 1992.....More.

Item Code: WAYU$19.99

Publisher

Grant

Publish Date

2016

Binding

Hard Cover

Dimensions

9x11

# Pages

24pg

Color

Text/Full Color

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M C ESCHER The Graphic Work (New Edition) -- New Edition. Recommended. From impossible staircases to tesselated birds, Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898–1972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and mathematics. Dense, complex, and structured by intricate principles, his work is at the same time decorative and playful, toying constantly with optic illusions and the limitations of sensory perception. For mathematicians and scientists, Escher is a mastermind. For hippies, he was the pioneer of psychedelic art. New edition of a 1959 classic, complete with Escher's commentary (he lived until 1972).....More.

Item Code: MCECH$14.99

Publisher

Taschen

Publish Date

2016

Binding

Hard Cover

Dimensions

8x10

# Pages

496pg

Color

b&w

We also have in stock this cool little work. Strangely enough, it hasn’t sold well for us in the catalog and on the website, but I sell it all the time in my local bricks and mortar store, Booktown, which is a USED book store. So this is obviously something folks have to see to fall in love with. Check it out.

ALSO AVAILABLE

M.C. ESCHER KALEIDOCYCLES -- By Doris Schattschneider and Wallace Walker. Everyone loves surprises, and in this book the magic of Escher's work is revealed in three dimensions. Use the perforated cards to make your own beautifully decorated geometric shapes. Forms of stunning symmetry and regularity are created when you combine geometry with Escher's art. Build 14 elaborate geometrics using die-cut, pop-out color designs on heavy card stock.

Item Code: MCEK$14.99

Publisher

Taschen

Publish Date

2015

Binding

Soft Cover

Dimensions

12x9

# Pages

68pg

Color

Partial Color

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HASHISH The Lost Legend -- A Lost Classic from 1898. Recommended. By Fritz Lemmermayer. Art by Gottfried Sieben. Edited by Ronald K. Siegel. This much sought-after lost German novel of hashish visions is newly translated and illustrated with the amazing erotic 19th century images. A book so rare and sought after that only two copies can be found in world libraries. A forgotten Arabian legend has been translated into English. This illustrated novel is presented as a "pictorial opera" of love, eroticism, drugs and tragedy, with wonderful nudes throughout, as well as Arabian heroic fantasy, all blended into a tale of drugs and other worlds and descriptions of true hashish hallucinations.....More.

Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide 2016-17

COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE 46th Edition 2016-17 SGT Rock Hall of Fame Edition -- Limited, 1000! Cover art by Russ Heath. Highly Recommended. By Bob Overstreet et al. The first ever "Overstreet Hall of Fame" edition of Overstreet, with all the same contents as the regular edition - the new prices, new feature articles, new additions to the Overstreet Hall of Fame, market reports and more - but in this new limited edition version. This year the book referred to as "The Bible of collectors and dealers" pays tribute to the legendary - and that's not just hype - artist Russ Heath, creating a Sgt. Rock/spirit of DC war comics cover.....More.

THE BIG BIG COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE 46th Edition 2016-17 Star Trek 50th -- Highly Recommended. By Bob Overstreet et al. Artist Joe Corroney celebrates the 50th anniversary of Star Trek with his cover for this oversized, spiral-bound limited edition of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide. Created for comic book dealers, serious collectors and historians, The Big, Big Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide includes only the pricing sections and the lists of top comics--no ads and no articles,but everything here is in bigger size for easy reading, and spiral lay-flat binding for easier use.....More.

Item Code: BIG46$47.50$42.50

Publisher

Gemstone

Publish Date

2016

Binding

Wirebound

Dimensions

9x11

# Pages

800pg

Color

Text/Partial Color

Last year’s guide, Capt. America cover, on sale for $14.95 [CB45C], $17.50 in hardcover [CB45CH], and $29.95 in the Big Big size with a special Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cover [BIG45]. If you don’t mind prices slightly out of date, all the rest of the information is there! Very few left.

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PS Artbooks on Sale

Volume 2

Volume 3

Volume 9

PLANET COMICS Volume 2 -- Closeout Price! Collects #5-8, 1940. Recommended. By Will Eisner, Lou Fine, Bob Powell, Fletcher Hanks, Charles Quinlan et al. Foreword by Roy Thomas. More "out of this world" yarns from the heroes (and heroines!) of the spaceways that appeared from Fiction House over a thirteen-year period ending in 1953. They're all here. Captain Nelson Cole of the Solar Force, Gale Allen of the Girl's Patrol, Fero Planet Detective, Auro Lord of Jupiter, The Red Comet, Space Admiral Curry in the Doomed Universe, Spurt Hammond, Buzz Crandall, and Flint Baker. And they are all in just the first 64-page issue! This was the first and the longest running science fiction comic until DC's Strange Adventures came along, ten years later.....More.

Mature Readers

Two killer items this week: a new edition of the first Sex and Horror--The Art of Emanuele Taglietti. And also a companion volume, all new, The Art of Alessandro Biffgnandi. Hey, I never heard of these guys either, they are not household names. But I recognize their work from the covers of those crazy Italian comics of the 1960s and 70s. They both worked on the popular Zora the Vampire, and Biffgnandi did Candida La Marchesa among much more work. You may recognize them from pieces reproduced in years past in the pages of Glamour International. Amazing work from both.

And we have two photography books: Glamour Girls of Paris is just what it sounds like, photos from the 1950s and 60s, before the girls were shaving everything and getting airbrushed into perfection. Paris is where all this erotica started, isn’t it? And we also have a new collection by Helmet Newton,Us and Them. Although this has perhaps 25% devoted to nude ladies, as is his wont, the balance features celebrities, and shots by Newton and his wife, another talented artist, of one another at work and at play. Previously a high priced deluxe Taschen release, now in a bargain edition.

News
and Notes

My schedule calls for me to review, each week, all the items that we keep in stock. During that review, I very often choose some items to discontinue and in some cases I immediately put them on sale.

Right now we only list these in our special SALE listings, every three months or so. So we have no method to let you know about these until each SALE email. That is why I encourage you to look every so often into our website Close-Outs, to see the latest additions. I’d like to add these to this weekly email, but with the lack of room here, I can only include basic information, with a link to the full details on our website. We’ve not room to include pictures and descriptions. In an attempt to create this new feature, here are some of my latest price reductions.

Cavewoman (Mature Readers) - I just reduced prices on 14 titles and cover variants, usually 40% off. These include:

Quantities on these vary from five to rarely more than ten copies, so act accordingly. If this feature proves popular—if we get some orders—I’ll include more of these “mini-lists” here. I also just dropped prices on several of the Shadow graphic novels, such as the Masters series. [SHF02, SHF03, and SHM01-03].

~Bud

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